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Unpacking The Racial Overhaul Of Public Education

Tyrone Howard, a professor of education at the University of California and president of the American Educational Research Association, looks at...

May 23, 2023Geneva

New City Reading Curriculum Criticized for Not Being Culturally Responsive

Tyrone Howard is a professor of education at UCLA who serves on a research advisory board for the publisher of the...

May 15, 2023Geneva

Fresno Unified sees 30% spike in homeless student population. ‘Everything is getting harder’

“Undercount with homeless students is always a concern,” said Angela James, research director at UCLA’s Center for the Transformation of Schools....

May 10, 2023Geneva

Building Bridges Summit Creates Roadmap for Diverse, Sustainable Educator Workforce

On April 10, in Sacramento, the summit, “#CABuildingBridges: Setting the Vision for Sustaining BIPOC Educators in California,” was designed by classroom...

April 27, 2023Geneva

Proposed California Law Would Increase School Teacher Pay 50 percent by 2030

… A 2022 survey by UCLA Center for the Transformation of Schools found that one in five teachers say they intend...

April 26, 2023Geneva

Our Children Can’t Wait: HSC’s Chapter on Health & Learning

Spearheaded by UCLA’s Center for the Transformation of Schools, the book and companion podcast address often-ignored conditions and policies that affect a student’s...

April 12, 2023Geneva

An Inglewood charter school looks to literacy to build success among its Black students

UCLA education professor Tyrone Howard agreed that Wilder’s effort could be a model for building strong literacy skills, but that it’s...

April 7, 2023Geneva

K-12 enrollment: Does the increase in homeless students indicate a worsening trend?

The overarching cause of homelessness among all Californians is the perennial shortage of affordable housing in the state, according to Angela...

April 4, 2023Geneva

California’s TK-12 enrollment fails to rebound in a return to ‘normalcy’

Homeless students increased sharply: 9% to 187,300 students. And these numbers do not include the end of the Covid moratorium on...

April 4, 2023Geneva

California is preparing more credentialed teachers, but is it enough?

A recent survey of teachers by the UCLA Center for the Transformation of Schools revealed that 40% of teachers have considered leaving the...

March 24, 2023Geneva